Hi, I’m Ilpo aka Resound. I’m here to inspire you to work smarter and make your music sound better.

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Master Your Craft: 28 Rules for Success in Electronic Music Production

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It’s a fantastic time to be making music. You have so many possibilities. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to succeed and thrive. We’re facing new kinds of challenges. Our lives are busy. It’s difficult to focus. We feel more confused than ever. I know all about it. I’ve grinded to a halt several times. But I never gave up.

I’m here to share what I’m learning through my own experience. I have 20+ years behind me in music production, DJing, mixing, mastering and expert work, but I’m still trying new things and learning every day. Below you’ll find some of the record labels and companies I’ve worked with closely.

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I’ve got a whole bunch of stuff ready for you. Before you move further, here is my first lesson to you: Information without action is useless.

So enjoy your time learning. But then… It’s time to do the work. Figure out what works for you in practice.

Work

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Robert Greene: Mastery

Since discovering this book for the first time in 2014, I’ve listened to the audio version 3 times and also bought a hard copy. I constantly return to it for reference and inspiration. I think that’s good enough for an introduction!

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Last year marked my 20th year releasing electronic music as an artist.

I started dabbling with electronic music and made my first tracks already back in 1996. But I started releasing music to the public in the following year. Back then I was using tracker software to make music and I ran a tracker scene label called Rebound. We released more than 100 tracks as free downloads within a timespan of about 4 years.

There’s a request I keep getting regularly. It comes in different shapes and forms but the gist is always the same. Here’s an example of an email I received:

“I began with the program Logic pro X. But i have a problem: I want to get some plug ins for this program, i’d like to get it for free, because buying it is too expensive for me at the moment, so i like to download it, but it’s so hard to find it…

This is a guest post by Jake from www.cryonautmedia.com. To learn how to get started with sound design, download his free 10 step guide to sound design here.

If you were to ask 100 producers whether they use presets or create their own original sounds, you would probably find the results to be pretty evenly split. While some producers use presets as they are, or tweak them a little, others refuse to use any sound they didn’t create themselves. This is a fiercely debated topic. In this article, we’ll examine the merits of both sides, and then go over one way you can use presets to your advantage when it comes to learning and doing sound design.

In this blog post I’m showing you a bunch of saturation plugins that I absolutely love. I will also talk about the different ways I use saturation and how each of the plugins ties into that. I’ve also created short videos of each plugin and embedded them into this post. This way you can see and hear it all in action.